Are Dreams Instructive? — What Autoethnographic Research Might Reveal about Trump’s Rhetoric
Our dreams often are unsettling. Sometimes, however, they also provide a unique picture of and insight into reality,...
Commentary
Trump’s Rhetorical Stonewalling Strategy
President Donald J. Trump and members of his administration are stonewalling on the issue of the Mueller report...
President [Noselaugh] Trump and the Question of Character
“It’s demoralizing. It’s unfair.” Jan. 28, 2019, was her first day back at work in five weeks, yet...
Michael Cohen’s verbal somersault
This article originally appeared in The Conversation on February 27, 2019. Michael Cohen, who admits to lying, also...
What Can ‘The Favourite’ Tell Us about the Rhetoric of Queer Letters?
With the Academy Awards scheduled for this week, there’s plenty of buzz about “The Favourite.” It tops this...
One Rhetorician’s Read of Trump’s Second State of the Union
There are eight observations that really stood out to me, a communication scholar of over 40 years, in...
In Defense of an Open Society
The New York Times celebrated a new year by updating its archive of the people, places, and things...
Government #ShutDown and Stasis
American public discourse has worked itself into knots again. Amid the recent government shutdown and deliberation over President...
Disrupting the Trump Monologue
Two weeks before Christmas, news audiences were treated to a rare spectacle in the Oval Office: a bickering...
If Dems are elected, they’ll do what we’ve been doing!
Recently, a common claim (what scholars of rhetoric would call a topos) has emerged among Trump and GOP...